The French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton is bringing an exhibition by the renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans to Munich. At the Espace Louis Vuitton Munich, the in-house exhibition space for contemporary art, selected works by the artist can be seen under the title Passages Silencieux.
Passages Silencieux highlights the experimental working methods of the German-born photographer and extends across both floors of the Espace Louis Vuitton Munich. The exhibition deliberately avoids a chronological structure. Instead, cross-connections emerge between different temporal, geographical and atmospheric moments.
With a mixture of portraits, plant photographs, still lifes and abstract works, a visual language unfolds that Tillmans has continuously developed since the early 2000s. The works enter into dialogue with each other without hierarchy. Large-format prints hang next to unframed photographs, snapshots juxtapose conceptual works.
“The picture is a good starting point for thinking about the world,” says Tillmans himself. He not only focuses on the visible environment, but also makes the material reality of his medium tangible. The artist has been producing his own prints since the 1990s, a central part of his work. The exhibition Passages Silencieux also brings this experimental dimension into focus. For example, works are created by photographing or enlarging existing prints or copies again, which makes the texture of the paper and the individual character of the printing process visible.
The exhibition, on view from October 17, 2025 to March 14, 2026 at the Espace Louis Vuitton Munich, is part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s international Hors les murs program, which aims to provide a global audience with access to the foundation’s collection – including through exhibition spaces in Tokyo, Venice, Beijing, Seoul, Osaka and Munich.
